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Christopher Sardellicsardelli@thelancasternews.com
Grainy footage from a security camera shows an armed robber stealing money from a Lancaster convenience store Saturday morning.
Lancaster police officers are searching for the man who stole an unknown amount of money from the Westgate Exxon convenience store, at 1101 West Meeting St., on April 9.

More training and better job placement for unemployed workers, as well as improved communication between local organizations, are all recommendations from the county’s first workforce study.

The $20,000 study, commissioned by Lancaster County Council last fall to address unemployment and help find ways to put people back to work, was recently completed by Greenville-based marketing research and workforce development agency 10-x Group.

Jesef Williamsjwilliams@thelancasternews.com
The S.C. Highway Patrol is still looking into an accident that damaged a sheriff’s office vehicle last week.
James Antwon White, 21, of Lancaster was driving a 2003 Chevrolet four-door vehicle at 6:40 a.m. March 30 on Great Falls Highway when he drove off the right side of the road and hit two vehicles in the South 200 Grill parking lot, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol.
One of those vehicles was a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office Chevrolet SUV.

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Fantasia Farms will host its fifth annual Fantasia Fun Day for ALS from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds from the event will benefit the ALS Association, the Jim “Catfish” Hunter chapter. The chapter provides services to more than 800 people with ALS in the area.

Christopher Sardellicsardelli@thelancasternews.com
Shirley Blackmon walked cautiously toward her nephew’s Pleasant Road house on Wednesday morning, moments after watching several police cars and ambulances speed by her window.
Blackmon, accompanied by her grandson, Marshall Blackmon, kept a safe distance as she watched the cars pull into the driveway of 4351 Pleasant Road, a one-level home located near Primus Crossroads, a few miles from Rocky River Road (U.S. 522).

Reece Murphyrmurphy@thelancasternews.com
A Clinton Elementary School fifth-grader has been suspended and faces expulsion after allegedly drawing pictures threatening a faculty member.
The incident occurred about 8 a.m. April 1 as the 11-year-old served a three- day in-school suspension sentence for fighting, school officials and a Lancaster Police incident report said.